Hans (ZS6AKV)and I had this discussion on the board a while ago...here was the last "answer" to the inevitable question. BTW, the balls and clubs are already up there.
Roger WA1KAT
----- Original Message ----- From: David Sindall To: hans Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 5:53 PM Subject: RE: Frequency to be used in space for the golf ball
Dear Hans
We plan on having an active and a passive transmitter. An active transmitter will work for up to a week until batteries run out. Its frequency is not set as of yet. The passive transmitter is basically the use of reflective surface of the 24K plated surface of the ball. The non linear laser tracking will monitor the position for the rest of the voyage.
Element 21 Golf Company
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Frey" [email protected] To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 11:15 AM Subject: [sarex] Re: Golf Ball in Space?
Robert Bruninga schrieb:
...hull of the Zvezda Service Module. Tyurin also plans to hit a golf ball from a bracket on Pirs as part of a Russian commercial activity.
Does anyone have any more info on this?
Hi Bob. I did a google with "golf ball space". This was a result: http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/ft_060227_exp13_golf.html
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